The love of God (forgiveness / compassion) ministers to the standard of the holiness of God

The activity (power, principle, purpose) of God ministers to the standard of the worship of God

The desire of God (for men) ministers to the standard of the will of God (concerning men)

The body of Christ ministers to the standard of Headship of Christ in the individual

The Holy Spirit ministers in/among us to the standard of the Father in Christ

The overcomers are given to sit on the throne (Rev. 3) because in this life, they have passed the test of setting their hearts on the throne (Col. 3).

The growth of the kingdom of God is measured by the growth of the capture of earthly awareness under the dominion of our awareness of Him who sits on the throne. Thus, the casting down of every imagination (II Cor. 10). In this way the kingdom is given dominion through the heart and mind (not activity per se).

 Depending on the strength of our heavenly awareness vs. the strength of our earthly awareness, we decide at all times either to abandon earthly awareness (until we are strong enough to face it), or else to capture the earthly awareness under dominion of our worship of the King (through our engagement of this life in some way.)

Our activity only reflects (shadows, traces) the course of our heart. Hence, our activity is not the defining essence of the Kingdom. Hence, neither engagement of the earth, nor even the engagement of ministry register the essence of the Kingdom. They are but contexts of outworking the progress of the heart toward the throne.

The kingdom will not be manifest until we are manifest at His appearing to us—the result of having completed the race for the throne from within.

Worship is the direct pursuit of God without reference to earthly agenda (a resting agent of capture). It is the primary vehicle for establishing and maintaining (anchoring) us in the kingdom. (Hence we see the intertwinement of priesthood and kingship. Our kingship is exercised through the superior vessel of our priesthood, ie, worship.)

Prayer is the pursuit of God with reference to earthly agenda. It is an active/laboring agent of capture, but is founded on and secondary to worship. Worshipless prayer is ungrounded prayer; it is diverted prayer that actually reinforces earthly awareness, not conquers it.

Worship, Love and Faith vs. Knowledge and the Anointing

The explosion of both the information age ("knowledge shall increase") and the anointing in this final generation set up at once the most formidable obstacles and the greatest vessels to perfecting the kingdom in our hearts, birthing us into the final kingdom manifestation.

Again, neither surface engagement with the information age nor with the anointing itself indicate the manifest kingdom.They only shadow that which is hidden in us until birthing. They are contexts for perfecting of the secret place.

To the degree we are persuaded otherwise, we are deceived, placing the superficial above the eternal. (Here we see the essence of false kingdom teaching, which simply mistakes shadows for essence)—We are yet subject to the corporate spirit, the arch bane of all overcoming

Faith describes the spirit nature of our worship (love) awareness. Because our worshipping love faith is unto one who sets the standard by his holiness, our worship, love and faith are all intrinsically matters of obedience.

The Essential Individuality of the Kingdom

The battle for the expanse of the kingdom of God among mankind is fought and won one soul at a time. It is impossible to understand the kingdom of God or what it means to overcome without understanding  the essential individuality of relationship with God.

The kingdom of God is comprised of an innumerable company of king-priests, each of whom is planted and birthed into being with a uniquely personal identity and destiny, a destiny and a kingship to be fought and won over an intensely personal course of obedience in faith.

God has willed in His heart to have a fundamentally and jealously guarded personal relationship with each of the objects of His mercy. Thus, the entire process of salvation is fundamentally personal from beginning to end—even though it is worked out in relationship to the development of surrounding citizens of the kingdom.

No one can be saved for anyone else. No one can be born again for someone else. No one can receive a circumcised heart or be baptized or receive the Holy Spirit for someone else. No one can repent for someone else. And come the time of judgement, each man will appear before God to give account of his life without the aid, support, comfort or advocacy of any other person.

All of this then means that the corporate aspect of the kingdom in its outworkings among its members is fundamentally dependent upon and dedicated to the ministering to the success of its individual members in each one's pursuit of God. The kingdom as a corporate entity has no self-sustaining meaning apart from or independent of this.

Overcoming our Personal World and the Spirit of the World

Predicated upon this, we are able to proceed in understanding what it is the overcomer must vanquish to obtain his place on the throne. In other words, we can begin to understand what defines the "earthly awareness" that must be captured. For in fact, there are two major levels of opposition and earthly mindedness that must be overcome.

The first and more obvious comprises those awarenesses that are strictly personal in nature. These are the areas of personal weakness and temptation that are unique to the aspiring king-priest and his personal circumstances.

But there is a second less obvious yet even more daunting realm that must be overcome. It is such a realm as strikes to the heart of the meaning and demonstration of God's kingdom as a corporation in the earth. This realm is none other than the spirit of the world, i.e., the spirit of corporate mankind. The understanding of this spirit power is found by contrasting it to the essence of the structure of God's kingdom.

{For the study of this contrast, please see An Introductory Discussion Of Group Consciousness in Context of the Laodicean Church Age}

 

Chris Anderson

Riverside, Rhode Island

 

First Love Ministry
- a ministry of Anglemar Fellowship
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